Irvington, New Jersey

Irvington is a township in Essex County, New Jersey. The area was known as Camptown until the mid-1800s, and it was renamed in honor of Washington Irving in 1850. It became an independent village on 27 March 1874, and it became a town on 2 March 1898. The 1967 Newark riots hastened an exodus of white families from the area, going from being almost exclusively white in 1965 to being 40% black in 1980 and 70% black in 1990. In 2016, Irvngton had a population of 54,425 people.